No civil servants, teachers, junior doctors, senior police …

No civil servants, teachers, junior doctors, senior police or opposition MP’s … that really is the very definition anarchy. You’re full of surprises, Lundavra

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In the UK civil society muddles through and every few years we have a clean-out with an election swapping one party of government for another. Turkey seemed to have hit on their very own method swapping an autocratic government for a military one every few years.

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ForArgyll on PauseThere will be a lot of conspiracy theorist yoons who will be disappointed that you haven’t outed the deep-state totalitarian Nats who are REALLY behind this !!
Still, meantime, democratic accountability as we’ve come understand it in Argyll & Bute still needs a vigilant eye and for a forum in which expressions of concern can be aired.
This, for example, could have been discussed and might have prompted an explanation of some kind from A&BC …
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2854777/Office-of-Surveillance-Commissioners-Inspection.txt

Supreme Court finds for appellants on Named PersonsA ray of sunshine indeed,Mr Kirk!
The figures though upon which this optimistic outlook as based are pre the EU referendum.
Since then, we’ve voted to come out of the EU; the PM has resigned, the Chancellor has been sacked, Liam Fox is in Trade and Industry, Boris Johnston is in the Foreign Office.
The Stock Market and the £ have been “volatile”. The banks have been stress tested and it doesn’t look good
The CBI have reported that manufacturers business confidence has fallen at its fastest rate since early 2009, and there have been falls in both investment and hiring. From surveys by Deloitte, the Institute of Directors and others there is general agreement that brexit will reduce economic activity. The Bank of England agrees.
HM Treasury have published a paper entitled “Forecasts for the UK economy: a comparison of independent forecasts” ( you’ll find it here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539316/Forecasts_for_the_UK_Economy_July_2016.pdf). It makes depressing reading.